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| | Symbolism.Org: Symbolism of Popular Culture: Sequence |
 | | Freud's efforts at downgrading Ranks birth trauma theories were effective within the overall psychoanalytic community but the idea was far too important to go away even with the curse of Freud himself. |
 | | Upon the termination of the birth struggle, after the first breath, there are feelings of liberation, salvation, love and forgiveness, along with fantasies of having been cleansed, unburdened and purged. |
 | | Again, there is an incredible similarity to the pattern of the other sequences we have found whether they be Erich Neumann's consciousness through history, Joseph Campbell's voyage of the hero in mythology, key dramatic structure in literature or the sequence in the life of Christ. |
| www.symbolism.org /writing/books/spc/sequence/page4.html (2003 words) |
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